anthocyanin
/ˌæn.θoʊˈsaɪ.ə.nɪn/noun
anthocyanin is a noun meaning “Any of many water-soluble red to violet plant pigments related to the flavonoids (more noticeable in autumn after its chlorophyll decomposes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-H-O-C-Y-A-N-I-N and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of anthocyanin is anthocyanins.
What does anthocyanin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of many water-soluble red to violet plant pigments related to the flavonoids (more noticeable in autumn after its chlorophyll decomposes).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anthocyanin?
- US /ˌæn.θoʊˈsaɪ.ə.nɪn/
- US /ˌæn.θəˈsaɪ.ə.nɪn/
Anthocyanin has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anthocyanin
- anthocyanins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anthocyanin?
Anthocyanin appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Anthocyanin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of many water-soluble red to violet plant pigments:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anthocyane |
| German | Anthocyan |
| Portuguese | antocianina |
| Spanish | antocianina |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does anthocyanin come from?
From antho- + cyanin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).